Ansu Fati's labyrinth: between the fear of a new operation and the serious risk of more relapses

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Ansu Fati

, just a 19-year-old boy who has been hung with the sanbenito of becoming a world star, has resumed a path that he thought he had left behind.

The one with red eyes, despair and sleepless nights.

That of martyrdom, physical, but also emotional.

The same one that always drags him to the same question: Will the day come when his body gives him a truce?

With his spirits on the ground, without having been able to recover yet from the disgust of his last relapse, and with the support of his father,

, his brother

and his famous agent,

, Ansu listened again this Monday in the sports city azulgrana the explanations of the medical manager of Barcelona, ​​doctor

.

The Barca doctor, just as he did last Saturday in the presence of coach

, continues to recommend that he undergo surgery, which would take him to be out for about four months, thus missing out on the rest of the season. A conservative treatment, an option that the

, would hardly shorten the recovery periods, at most a month. The intervention would be carried out by the renowned Finnish specialist L

who would repair the biceps femoris tendon in his left leg. Although the striker asked Barcelona for more time to make a final decision.

Reasons you have. When the meniscus in his left knee was torn on November 7, 2020 in a match against Betis, the footballer had to undergo surgery up to four times. So, the conservative treatment proposed by Dr.

did not work. Six months later, with his knee swollen and unable to bear loads, Jorge Mendes intervened so that the Portuguese

, doctor of the Portuguese team and

, removed part of the meniscus. Ansu Fati spent eleven months out, with a triumphant return against Levante (September 26, 2021), with tears and a goal included, which has ended up being a parenthesis. He suffered a ruptured biceps femoris on November 2. There was no talk then of the tendon being affected. He spent two months in the infirmary. He returned to Riyadh to play 54 minutes against Real Madrid in the Super Cup. Framework. He has the gift of scoring. But the 35 minutes played in San Mamés in the Copa del Rey were already too many. And it burst.

"You get the impression that the first MRI [after his first biceps injury] was thought to be a muscle tear, not a tendon tear. Perhaps the diagnosis was misunderstood. It's not often that an athlete with a biceps injury a muscle relapses two months later in a different place", considers the prestigious traumatologist

, director of the CAMDE Advanced Center for Sports Medicine.

recovery plan

"And if it is the tendon that is damaged, the tendency is to operate on it. You guarantee that it will heal. If you let it heal conservatively, it will take about three months. And it is very likely that the same thing could happen to you again. The risk of recurrence is 34%. On the other hand, if you operate it, the recovery time will be more or less the same, although with the certainty that it will not break again," says De la Varga, with an explanation that coincides with the one that Barcelona doctors have done to Ansu Fati, who have also assured him of a scrupulous recovery and muscle readaptation plan to face next season with full guarantees, with the World Cup in Qatar to be played between the months of November and December.

"The problem with the tendon is that it tends to heal with a pulp, a mass that is not a tendon. It looks like it is scarred but it is not tendon tissue. That pulp gets between the clean parts. You have to clean it so that the tendon sticks. And you guarantee that better with surgery. The other option would be to put platelets on him", continues De la Varga, who assumes the doubts of the Barcelona star: "No one likes to have surgery, and he has a very bad experience. Sport is injuries , that's true. But I wouldn't have that same injury again. The problem with not operating is that you can continue chaining injuries to the biceps and spend a whole year without lifting your head. And then end up undergoing surgery".

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